☂ things unlikely & desirable | writing by 李杏

title: Try to Capture Every Minute
verse: Harry Potter
community: galentinesday
recipient: galentinesday
characters: Andromeda Toknks, Nymphadora Tonks
word count: 913
rating: G
summary: Andromeda can't believe how much her little girl has grown up.
notes: galentinesday is back up and open for business! Please come nominate your favorite fandoms and female characters for a fic exchange due in February 2015. I realized that I never posted this here, so consider it an advertisement.

( 'You'll always be my little Dora.' )

title: Blessed Are The Kings Who Have Left Their Thrones
fandom: Dark Tower
community: writerverse
prompt: Phase #06: Challenge #22: Of Fandoms and Fiction
word count: 277
rating: G
summary: "The man in black fled across the desert, and the gunslinger followed."
notes: This story is a few months old, but I found it again today and thought I might share it here.

( Ka played the fiddle and we all say thankya. )

title: Fire & Water
fandom: Fullmetal Alchemist
community: trope_bingo
prompt: square: au: a
word count: 906
rating: G
summary: Riza and Roy encounter a water elemental on their quest to find the Philosopher's Stone.
notes: I expanded on this fic I wrote to fill a request in a comment meme. The new version is substantially (approx 3x) longer.

( 'Colonel, get back! Fire magic won't work against a water elemental!' )

title: June 24, 2011
fandom: DrKotobuki 's shiftverse
community: writerverse + trope_bingo
prompt: Phase #5: Challenge #03: Table of Doom ("location: big city") + square: celebratory kiss
word count: 535
pairing: Abel Cross/Nikos Vallas
rating: G
summary: Nikos and Abel watch the news together the night marriage equality is passed in New York.
notes: Abel is, at the time this story takes place, a 61-year-old British Indian expat living in New York City. Nikos is his 29-year-old boyfriend.

( Marriage had failed Abel once before, but it still held promise for someone like Nikos, still young and in love with a lifetime ahead of him without hiding. )

title: Lessons
verse: Jazz Remix
community: writerverse
prompt: Phase #5: Challenge #21: Weekly Quick Fic #7 ("leaving")
word count: 600
rating: PG13
summary: Mariel teaches Koji to read and write, but Aya schools both of them.

( 'Yer no nun.' )

title: Graduation Night
fandom: TSUBASA: RESERvoir CHRoNiCLE & Harry Potter
community: hogwartsishome
prompt: hh_clubs
word count: 372
rating: PG13?
summary: Fay is a Slytherin, and time is running out for him to get what he wants.
notes: I have all of these half-assed and unfinished crossovers on my laptop and in my brain, so I've decided to just post the odds and ends here. If anyone else is interested in them, I could always add on. This particular one isn't really a crossover, but a fusion, written for a hogwartsishome activity that I can't seem to find.

( Fay crept up close to him so they were standing almost nose-to-nose; he imagined he could feel Kurogane's heart beating under his robes. )

title: First Kiss
verse: Cactus Flower (Jazz Remix)
community: writerverse
prompt: Phase #4: Challenge #36: Quick Fic Amnesty ("midnight")
word count: 214
rating: G
summary: Mariel and Aya ring in the new year at Times Square.

( 'You know, they say it's good luck to kiss your sweetheart at midnight.' )

title: À la Mode
verse: Cactus Flower (Jazz Remix)
community: writerverse
prompt: Phase #5: Challenge #6: And The Definition Is…
word count: 586
rating: PG
summary: Aya tried on Mariel's suit while she was sleeping.
notes: lol Christmas fic I totally forgot about that while I was traveling, derp.

( 'My dear Ms Scarlett, what are you doing?' )

title: Home After Dark
verse: Cactus Flower (Jazz Remix)
community: writerverse
prompt: Phase #5: Challenge #2: Weekly Quick Fic #1 ("first date")
word count: 809
rating: G
summary: Mariel sees Aya home safely.

( 'It's late. A lady shouldn't be out alone at night.' )

title: Gaslamp Romance
verse: Cactus Flower (Gaslamp Romance Remix)
community: writerverse
prompt: Phase #5: Challenge #2: Weekly Quick Fic #1 ("just after eight")
word count: 287
rating: G
summary: Aya visits Mariel at work.

( It's difficult to sound annoyed when you're smiling, but Mariel puts in a valiant effort. )

title: Charity
verse: Cactus Flower (Jazz Remix)
word count: 453
prompt: Advent Christmas Fic 2012: Day 4
rating: PG13
summary: Aya invites Mariel home for Christmas.
notes: none of the characters in these AUs should be assumed to have any relation whatsoever to their canon counterparts. just sayin'.

( Aya's voice was barely audible above the sound of Mariel's heart pounding in her ears, and dust motes swirling in the winter sunlight, and the echoes of laughter and clinking glasses from last night's party. )